Deck 15: Variations in Sexual Behaviour

Question 1

The definition of an abnormal sexual behaviour is clear: if the person engages in sexual behaviour in a way or using something that the vast majority of the population does not do,the behaviour is clearly abnormal.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

A paraphilac voyeur is primarily motivated by the risk and forbiddenness of peeping.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Trying to prevent the development of paraphilias may be next to impossible at this point in our knowledge,so efforts should be concentrated solely on treatment.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Research on Internet sexual behaviour indicates that most people who use the internet for sexual activities are addicted to Internet sex.

Question 5

All transvestites are cross-dressers but not all cross-dressers are transvestites.

Question 6

The category of form fetishes,describes the fact that what the object is made out of and its shape are important.

Question 7

Most transvestites have real difficulties with their wives adjusting to their wearing of women's clothes.

Question 8

Most research suggests that women who engage in sexual exhibition are similar in history and profile as men who engage in sexual exhibition.

Question 9

Fetishes,regardless of their cause,typically develop early in the life of individuals.

Question 10

Asphyxiophilia can be considered a very serious,if not the most serious,sexual paraphilia in terms of its consequences for the participant.

Question 11

Most psychologists agree with the term sex addiction because it captures the psychological and physiological withdrawal that most people with these problems experience when they try to limit their sexual behaviour.

Question 12

A voyeur would find watching an exhibitionist to be very arousing.

Question 13

The causes of sadomasochism can lie in one's childhood,just like many of the paraphilias,but most participate in sadomasochistic activities for individual reasons as escape and issues of power.

Question 14

Many people have a little bit,if not a moderate amount,of the voyeur within them.

Question 15

The term highly sexual women,is a less negative term used for women who are hypersexual.

Question 16

The presence of pain in sadomasochistic behaviour is the key to sexually satisfying relationships and the pain is sexually arousing only in the context of a long-term relationship.

Question 17

Hypersexuality in women is considered to be less of a problem than in men because it is easier for women to get sexual partners.

Question 18

The goal of an exhibitionist is to produce a strong emotional response in the other person,usually a woman.

Question 19

It is the illusion of control,not actual control,which is central to dominance and submission activity for both the master and slave.

Question 20

Compulsive sexual behaviour is always paraphilic.

Question 21

Which one of the following paraphilias is against the law?

A)Sadism
B)Coprophilia
C)Hypersexuality
D)Pedophilia

Question 22

Initially,male sex offenders tend to deny responsibility for their behaviour.

Question 23

When did the Ontario Court of Appeal rule that women had the right to go topless as long as it was not for the purposes of commercial gain or sexual purposes?

A)1969
B)1973
C)1996
D)2000

Question 24

Which of the following is NOT a difficulty in defining abnormal sexual behaviours?

A)Many behaviours,such as having sex while doing a hand-stand,are infrequent and therefore may be statistically abnormal.
B)Every culture has different norms,therefore a behaviour that is acceptable in one culture may be sociologically abnormal elsewhere.
C)People may engage in bizarre practices without adverse consequences to their individual comfort or efficiency.
D)People may compulsively engage in bizarre sexual behaviour that causes them psychological discomfort,anxiety,and has negative impacts on their life.

Question 25

For this question,you are a young male in your early twenties.You have the impulse to touch female hair.When it happens,you feel intensely excited,have an erection and ejaculation without touching the girl in anyway,except by holding the hair.An objective observer would best classify this as

A)a media fetish
B)a form fetish
C)hypersexuality
D)transvestism

Question 26

Which of the following provides the BEST definition of a paraphilia?

A)Rare,or infrequently practiced,sexual behaviours.
B)Sexual behaviours that violate the norms of society.
C)Recurring,unconventional sexual behaviour that is obsessive and compulsive.
D)Sexual behaviours that are discomforting,inefficient,and bizarre.

Question 27

Let us say that Jack Smith has a shoe fetish.He requires that the shoes he uses for sexual arousal be leather boots,especially the well-worn and smelly hiking boots of female university students.His fetish is a ________________ fetish.

A)media
B)soft
C)form
D)transsexual

Question 28

Which term is used to describe the act of 'sexual rubbing against a woman in a crowd'?

A)frotteurism
B)voyeur
C)satyriasis
D)exhibitionism

Question 29

"Sexual behaviour is abnormal when it is rare;that is,when it is not practised by very many people." This is a _____ definition.

A)statistical
B)psychological
C)sociological
D)religious

Question 30

New medical treatments involving hormones and other psychotropic medications and other treatments based on learning appear to work almost all the time as reported by the authors of your text.

Question 31

When we examine paraphilias,one of the questions that we have to consider is "What is abnormal (deviant)behaviour?" Which of the following situations represents a situation where one has probably crossed the boundary into abnormal behaviour?

A)The individual has no preference one way or another for his sexual partner to wear silk panties during sexual intercourse.
B)The individual has a mild preference for his sexual partner to wear silk panties during sexual intercourse.
C)The individual has a strong preference for his sexual partner to wear silk panties during sexual intercourse,but is able to have sexual intercourse even if she does not wear them.
D)The individual has a strong preference for his sexual partner to wear silk panties during sexual intercourse and is not able to have sexual intercourse if she does not wear them.

Question 32

A man regularly obtains women's dirty panties from laundromats.He masturbates with them and then saves the panties.This is an example of

A)average middle class sexual behaviour
B)a fetish
C)masochism
D)scoptophilia

Question 33

Discomfort,inefficiency,and bizarreness are criteria of which definition of abnormality?

A)a psychological definition
B)an anthropological definition
C)the sociological definition
D)a statistical definition

Question 34

An individual sexually fixated on fur has a ______ fetish.

A)zoophilia
B)quasi-bestiality
C)soft form
D)soft media

Question 35

Normal sexual behaviour and abnormal sexual behaviour are

A)two overlapping categories
B)two separate categories
C)gradations on a continuum
D)impossible to differentiate

Question 36

If George is unable to carry out sexual intercourse with his wife Mary unless she wears those special long,red,smooth,silk gloves,we would classify George's attraction and attachment to those gloves as

A)a hardmedia fetish
B)a fetish
C)quasi-bestiality
D)a zoophiliac

Question 37

In a _____ fetish,it is the object and its shape that are important.

A)hard media
B)soft media
C)substance
D)form

Question 38

In defining "abnormal" according to the _________ approach,the problem of culture dependence is explicitly acknowledged.

A)psychological
B)anthropological
C)sociological
D)statistical

Question 39

Treatment is necessary even for those paraphilias which are relatively mild in expression because they develop ultimately over a lifetime into sources of personal anguish as well as becoming harmful to those with whom the person is involved.

Question 40

What might hard media fetishes be often associated with?

A)voyeurism
B)exhibitionism
C)zoophilia
D)sadomasochism

Question 41

People with sexual compulsions

A)have too many sex partners.
B)have a good grasp on reality.
C)have healthy relationships with others.
D)have lost control over the sexual behaviour.

Question 42

The term "sexual addiction" has been criticized because

A)it is not possible to have too much sex.
B)the withdrawal period following termination of sexual behaviour involves no psychological distress.
C)the withdrawal period following termination of sexual behaviour involves no physiological symptoms.
D)no true cases of addictive sexual behaviours have ever been demonstrated.

Question 43

For the man in von Krafft-Ebing's case history,which of these most accurately describes the strength of his attraction for his fetish object prior to treatment?

A)a mild preference
B)a strong distaste
C)a strong preference
D)a necessity for arousal

Question 44

Which of the following is TRUE regarding sexual sadomasochistic behaviour?

A)Sexual sadists consistently find experiencing pain and giving pain to be sexually satisfying.
B)Pain is arousing for sexual sadists only when it is part of a carefully scripted ritual.
C)A masochist who smashes a finger in a car door typically become aroused.
D)Sadistic sexual fantasies are less common.

Question 45

A person with transvestic fetishism

A)is usually a heterosexual male.
B)is a drag queen.
C)is a female impersonator.
D)is usually a heterosexual female.

Question 46

Which statement describes a man who engages in cross-dressing as part of a job?

A)drag queen
B)female impersonator
C)transvestite
D)queen

Question 47

Whenever Lisa feels very stressed,anxious,and/or depressed,she seeks out sexual stimuli either in the form of online pornography and erotic stories,or casual sex partners.Lisa's behaviour is an example of

A)regular sexual behaviour
B)compulsive sexual behaviour as an attempt to improve negative moods
C)stress-reactive sex
D)female version of sexual masochism

Question 48

According to _____,fetishes result from classical conditioning in which an association is made between the fetish object and sexual arousal.

A)cognitive theory
B)the sexual addiction model
C)learning theory
D)psychoanalytic theory

Question 49

Most exhibitionists are

A)female
B)male
C)female and males about equally
D)males under 20

Question 50

What is probably one of the key elements in transvestism?

A)Addiction.
B)A clothing fetish.
C)Masochism.
D)A hard media fetish.

Question 51

A person who finds it difficult to think of anything other than sexual activity is in what stage of Carnes cycle of sexual addiction?

A)despair
B)preoccupation
C)compulsion
D)ritualism

Question 52

Which of the following components is most likely disturbed in the case of fetishism?

A)gender identity
B)sexual responsiveness to appropriate stimuli
C)formation of relationships with others
D)sexual orientation

Question 53

Kurt is a successful ad executive for a computer company.He is 32,married,and the father of two children.When Kurt's wife is not home,he puts on her stockings,garter belt,bra,skirt,blouse,and heels.While dressing he becomes sexually excited and proceeds to masturbate.Which of the following descriptions best fits Kurt?

A)Female impersonator
B)Drag queen
C)Transsexual
D)Transvestite

Question 54

Which theorist might describe an attachment to a fetish object as resulting from distorted perceptions and misinterpreted feelings?

A)learning theorist
B)cognitive theorist
C)role theorist
D)script theorist

Question 55

An alternative to the term sexual addiction is

A)compulsive sexual behaviour
B)love junkie
C)genitally eager
D)obsessive genitalus

Question 56

When do fetishisms usually develop?

A)childhood or adolescence
B)old age
C)early adulthood
D)middle age

Question 57

Which of the following is NOT a key aspect of compulsive sexual behaviour?

A)compulsiveness
B)obsession
C)fixation on pornography as sexual stimuli
D)limited understanding of the harmful consequences

Question 58

When Herman was little,he found that he was able to become highly sexually aroused when he used his older sister's newly worn panty hose during masturbation.When Herman grew into a young man,he found that he was able to achieve sexual satisfaction only when he had access to freshly worn panty hose.This is an example of

A)frottage
B)female impersonation
C)transvestism
D)a fetish

Question 59

What is the final step in the cycle of sexual addiction described by Carnes?

A)despair
B)preoccupation
C)compulsion
D)ritualism

Question 60

The behaviour most likely to be classified as a "victimless" crime would be

A)transvestism
B)voyeurism
C)exhibitionism
D)frotteurism

Question 61

In a survey by Doctor and Prince (1997)when did most of the cross-dressers report their first experience?

A)After puberty.
B)Before puberty.
C)Within a year of their first romantic relationship.
D)After marriage.

Question 62

Laura and Ben are interested in exploring sadism and masochism (S&M)sexual activities.Which of the following are they UNLIKELY to discover about sadomasochistic behaviours and culture?

A)More intense behaviours such as face slapping and wounding people is not as common as less intense behaviours like flagellation and gagging.
B)S&M play is literally like a play with roles,scripts,scenes,and props.
C)Most people who engage in S&M prefer one role (dominant versus submissive)over the other.
D)Experiences of pain is always part of the S&M script.

Question 63

Talamini's (1982)study of the wives and children of transvestites found that the wives were ________ the behaviour and the children were ________ the behaviour.

A)generally embarrassed by;intolerant of
B)generally not accepting of;embarrassed by
C)generally accepting of;generally tolerant of
D)generally accepting of;intolerant of

Question 64

Based on the causes of sado-masochism discussed in the text,the typical middle to upper-middle class male masochist is motivated by

A)the enjoyment of pain.
B)a desire for escape from the pressures of his work and/or gender role.
C)enjoyment of the infliction of pain upon others.
D)a homosexual identification that is transitory and non-binding.

Question 65

Why would a voyeur NOT be excited while visiting a nudist camp?

A)Too many old people.
B)Fear of being caught.
C)Not enough of a challenge.
D)Lacks the element of the forbidden.

Question 66

Research in New Brunswick found that in 1996,__________ percent of male sex offenders had been convicted for exhibitionism (Byers et al.,1997).

A)6
B)16
C)26
D)36

Question 67

The key to understanding dominance and submission is

A)the giving and receiving of pleasure from pain.
B)the consensual exchange of power.
C)the social class of the individuals involved-more middle class than working class.
D)the type of rituals that are used.

Question 68

George,a happily married man with three children,is the CEO of a successful corporation.After a hard week of work,George likes to stop at a "local friend's" place of work where he is spanked,tied to a wall,whipped,threatened and taunted until he pleads for intercourse and/or sexual relief.Given the discussion in your text of reasons for such behaviour,which of the following best explains George's weekly behaviour?

A)Such masochistic behaviour allows George a period of escape from the responsibilities of corporate life.
B)As a child,George became fixated on his mother and indirectly he is still trying to please her.
C)George is covertly fascinated with violence in our culture.
D)George has a fetish for pain and can achieve orgasm only by experiencing severe pain.

Question 69

In bondage and discipline the role preferred by both men and women was the _________ role.

A)passive (bottom).
B)active (top).
C)independent (middle).
D)watching.

Question 70

Who are most paraphilic individuals?

A)Females.
B)Males.
C)Females and males equally.
D)Gay women and men.

Question 71

Which statement describes exhibitionists?

A)Do not begin to expose themselves until their mid-20s after suffering embarrassment in a sexual relationship.
B)Are most often females,as seen by the increasing rate of sexual assault.
C)Often begin exposing themselves before adolescence.
D)Have relatively good relationships with members of the other sex.

Question 72

Jon would like to indulge his fantasy of being tied up and whipped by a professional dominatrix.What is NOT one of the rules inherent to dominance and submission practice that will keep him safe?

A)Stop words and signals
B)Following an agreed-upon script
C)Negotiating beforehand everything that will happen
D)Bring along a friend to oversee and guard

Question 73

Paraphilias are behaviours defined as lasting

A)one month or more.
B)six months or more.
C)twelve months or more.
D)eighteen months or more.

Question 74

Bondage and discipline as well as dominance and submission are

A)related to sadomasochism.
B)the terms for the psychological link between sexual master and slave.
C)more commonly practised by females than by males.
D)activities that rely on physical pain to promote pleasure.

Question 75

Which of the following is true concerning exhibitionism?

A)Most exhibitionists are women.
B)Homosexual exhibitionism is quite rare.
C)Exhibitionism begins in middle age.
D)Exhibitionists are psychiatrically disturbed.

Question 76

Participating in the dominance and submission subculture

A)entails risk-taking on the part of the participants.
B)often ends in serious injury.
C)is more characteristic of women than men because taking the active role enables them to take out basic gender-role aggressions in getting even.
D)results in the illusion of a complete lack of real control over the situation.

Question 77

According to Kinsey what percent of females and males enjoy being bitten during sexual activity?

A)10
B)25
C)50
D)75

Question 78

The words sexual sadist and sexual masochist were both derived from

A)psychologists Dr.Marcus Sados and Dr.Paolo Masochi,who studied variances in sexual behaviour.
B)authors who practised these sexual behaviours: Marquis de Sade (sadist)and Leopold Von Saches-Masoch (masochist).
C)prominent historical women: Countess Masochist (German dominatrix)and Marie Sadiste (actress).
D)Sade Masochiste,a feminist in the late-19thcentury who promoted the giving and receiving of pain for sexual satisfaction.

Question 79

Alvin is a boy in the neighbourhood and each evening he waits in hope he will see the girl next door undress or have sex with her boyfriend.Alvin becomes instantly aroused,stares and masturbates while he watches them.Alvin might best be classified as having which abnormal sexual variation?

A)voyeurism
B)sadomasochism
C)exhibitionism

Question 80

One psychological theory of sado-masochism suggests that

A)participants are attempting to escape from self-awareness.
B)participants have high levels of pain perception.
C)most participants are females attempting to gain control of their sexuality.
D)participants have low levels of pain perception.